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In March 2021, Canada’s premiers again took up the issue of federal health transfers by reiterating a demand made in late 2020 for a $28 billion increase in annual federal funding for health care. 

Their premise is simple. Once upon a time, the federal government contributed 50 per cent of the cost of medicare; now it contributes only 22 per cent. The provinces, it seems, are being generous by requesting that the feds need only raise their share to 35 per cent.

GUEST: Tom McIntosh, Professor, Politics and International Studies, University of Regina

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Canada’s inflation rate eased in November, as an acceleration in grocery and rent prices was offset by a decline at the gas pump.

GUEST: Marvin Ryder, Professor with the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University

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One-fifth of all passenger cars, SUVs and trucks sold in Canada in 2026 will need to run on electricity under new regulations Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is proposing Wednesday.

By 2030, the mandate will hit 60 per cent of all sales and by 2035, every passenger vehicle sold in Canada will need to be electric.

Manufacturers or importers who don’t meet the sales targets could face penalties under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.

GUEST: Brian Kingston, President of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association

GUEST: Adam Pyle, Emergency Medicine Physician and Lecturer with the University of Toronto

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The number of vacant jobs in Canada fell for the first time since the pandemic, easing from record highs in a possible turning point for the country’s labour market.

Openings fell 3.3 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis to 959,615 in the third quarter, Statistics Canada reported Monday. That’s probably the first quarterly decline in vacancies in more than two years, though the agency didn’t collect figures in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic.

GUEST: Katherine Scott, Senior Researcher with the Canadian Centre for

Policy Alternatives

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The Ford government’s controversial new process for selecting the next provincial court chief justice is “defective,” says a former top judge, while a legal expert said it presents a “glaring red flag” and highlights the need for an independent appointment system.

Opposition parties, meanwhile, accused the government of trying to politicize the courts.

GUEST: Andrew Furgiuele, Lecturer with the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto

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The House Jan 6. committee urged the Justice Department on Monday to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump and his allies, wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 Capitol insurrection with what lawmakers called a “roadmap to justice.”

Will the Justice Department lay criminal charges against former U-S President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6 insurrection?

GUEST: Elliot Tepper, Emeritus Professor of Political Science with Carleton University

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GUEST: Dr. Lori Turnbull, Director of the School of Public Administration with Dalhousie University

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The details of the coup attempt sound comical at first. A plot to replace the elected government of Germany with one centred on the person of Heinrich XIII, 71-year-old heir to the long-dormant throne of Reuss, a principality in what is now the bucolic state of Thuringia? To be carried out by members of the Reichsburger cult, who believe that the modern federal republic of Germany is not a real country but a corporation formed by the occupying powers after the Second World War? This is a Marx Brothers movie, right?

It’s when you read on that the whole thing starts to sound a little more chilling. Among the alleged plotters arrested last week were active or former members of the German military, including a parachute commander and a member of the elite Special Commando Forces. They had lots of money, large caches of weapons and had made what prosecutors called “concrete preparations” to storm the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building, and to shoot or take hostage many of its members.

GUEST: Marcus Kolga, Director of DisinfoWatch.org and Senior Fellow with the Macdonald Laurier Institute

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GUEST: Reggie Cecchini, Washington Correspondent for Global News 

GUEST: TECH TALK w/ Adam Oldfield 

GUEST: Cathy Pimentel, Mortgage Agent with Bold Mortgage Group

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Could we see a political divorce in the New Year that will result in an early election?

GUEST: Jagmeet Singh, Leader of the Federal NDP

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The House of Commons passed a Liberal bill on Wednesday designed to require web giants to compensate journalism outfits for reposting their content, and Meta is once again threatening to remove news content from Facebook in Canada.

Federal Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has argued the bill will "enhance fairness" in the digital news marketplace by creating a framework and bargaining process for behemoths such as Google and Meta, which owns social media sites Facebook and Instagram, to pay media outlets.

GUEST: Kevin Desjardins, President of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters

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GUEST: John Best, Publisher of The Bay Observer